"But enough pleasantries -- I want to discuss a sobering topic. With
increasing regularity this year, FBI agents from all over the country
have contacted me demanding webserver log data from Insecure.Org.
They don't give me reasons, but they generally seem to be
investigating a specific attacker who they think may have visited the
Nmap page at a certain time."

"The upcoming auction of dozens of key Web services patents in a
California bankruptcy case has some big Silicon Valley companies on
edge.

Among them are Google, Oracle and Sun Microsystems. Attorneys for those
and more than a dozen other companies held a powwow this week to
discuss the patent sale and the danger of becoming targets of
infringement suits by whomever acquires them."

Residents of Prince Georges County, Md can recycle old electronics (computer equipment, monitors, stereos and other electronics) by taking it to the hazardous waste facility at Brown Station Road on any given Sunday between 7:30AM and 4PM:

"news analysisA newly announced federal
investigation of the November election will bring fresh scrutiny on the
performance of e-voting machines, but election experts said they
believe any impact will be limited to future political contests."

"A company called Holo-Dek Gaming has opened a
gaming center in New Hampshire where $5/hour buys gamers a 73-inch high
definition projection screen and a networked Alienware PC or or Xbox.
More impressive, though, are the prototypes for their 180-degree gaming
theater... and their game sphere. Yes, sphere. This is just a pilot
program—the Baltimore facility planned for 2005 would have 300
networked gaming stations. Story and pictures here, company website here."

Baltimore?This could be good ... however it seems to me that it could easily flop.